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I DO is an innovative and student co-created course that you can take in your second year of your bachelor studies in addition to your regular courses. Participation is voluntary and by application only. If you successfully complete the course, you will be awarded 15 ECs which count towards your study progress in the third year of your bachelor. This means that your I DO credits contribute towards the 60 ECs you need in your third year. Completing the I DO course is therefore similar to completing a minor.
The grades you receive also count towards your GPA for your whole Bachelor’s degree programme, although your participation is during the second year of your bachelor programme.
You can register to participate in the I DO Project if you are currently a Year 1 bachelor student on either RSM’s BScIBA or BScBA, and will continue with your second year in September 2024.
In the 2023-24 academic year, we anticipate collaborating with 15 NGOs meaning that we will teach and train 15 consulting teams. The consulting teams will work with the NGOs to provide strategic advice. Teams will develop and execute marketing strategies, conduct feasibility studies for their projects, optimise the NGOs’ current operations, and much more.
You can expect valuable workshops that form a coherent framework to maximise your team’s success at supporting the NGOs’ missions. Our guiding principle is co-creation and collaboration to create the most significant positive impact possible. This means that your feedback and opinions as participants will be heard and discussed in planned (and also spontaneous) feedback and brainstorming sessions.
Our academic structure is the result of feedback sessions with the NGOS that took part in our pilot project and with the students who took the course last year.
I DO connects ambitious and open-minded bachelor students with international NGOs through an academic programme that equips them with additional skills and tools to best propel the NGOs’ developments forward. Students will work in teams of five to support one NGO in achieving its mission. Our partner NGOs tackle societal challenges all over the world, ranging from water scarcity in Zimbabwe to fighting poverty in South Africa.
I DO is organised and led by a team of students, RSM faculty members and staff. This structure ensures that student feedback and experiences are immediately translated into the continuous development of the course to enable real and significant impact.
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